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Discord's Hints About Crypto, NFTs Are Tearing Its Community Apart

11 points by intunderflow 5y ago

namlem 5y ago
Terrible article, but admittedly also a questionable move by Discord, especially that bullshit survey. If you're worried that the survey will produce results you don't like, holding a rigged survey only makes you look worse. NFTs are scammy and of dubious value, but the Ethereum ecosystem has legitimate potential. If Discord users refuse to see ads and don't want to buy Nitro though, shady NFTs might be the only way to pay the bills.
erulabs 5y ago
“Crypto bros”, “crypto stans”, misunderstanding about transaction costs, loads of fear. Really just, such a fresh and new take. Who are these articles for?
- SwimSwimHungry 5y ago
  Does everything have to be an exploitative grift though? With reddit also announcing cryprocurrency based karma, I'm starting to think that this is all an effort to cash out on whatever goodwill they may have. Frankly I wish this stuff would calm down already, but it may have to run its course and people will have to get hurt or die when the next black swan event occurs.
  - thinkingemote 5y ago
    Maybe this will be what leads to the down fall of Reddit and Discord. Hopefully their replacements will learn their lessons as they once learnt the lessons from those they replaced. Ultimately it's greed.
    - web2sucks 5y ago
      Oh yeah, giving decentralized power to the users is soooo bad. Man i wish Facebook paid me for my fucking data.
  - erulabs 5y ago
    Ah, this article is for you! Why adding an optional feature in a free app that tons of users want badly is "exploitative grift" I'm not sure I'll ever be able to understand.
snapdeus 5y ago
one of the essential tenets of capitalism is that it isn't a scam if enough hegemonic corporations engage in it
- web2sucks 5y ago
  Because it’s not a scam. Remember in the 80s and 90s when ecommerce was a scam, boomers said putting your credit card on a computer is daNgErOuS!!!
  - Yizahi 5y ago
    Of course it is. While shitcoins at least have some possibility to work in some limited context, NFTs are a clear scam. The easiest way to get it - it is because every single word said about them by authors is a lie today. Literally nothing of the advertised features exist in reality today.

11 points by intunderflow 5y ago

Terrible article, but admittedly also a questionable move by Discord, especially that bullshit survey. If you're worried that the survey will produce results you don't like, holding a rigged survey only makes you look worse. NFTs are scammy and of dubious value, but the Ethereum ecosystem has legitimate potential. If Discord users refuse to see ads and don't want to buy Nitro though, shady NFTs might be the only way to pay the bills.

erulabs 5y ago

“Crypto bros”, “crypto stans”, misunderstanding about transaction costs, loads of fear. Really just, such a fresh and new take. Who are these articles for?

SwimSwimHungry 5y ago
Does everything have to be an exploitative grift though? With reddit also announcing cryprocurrency based karma, I'm starting to think that this is all an effort to cash out on whatever goodwill they may have. Frankly I wish this stuff would calm down already, but it may have to run its course and people will have to get hurt or die when the next black swan event occurs.
- thinkingemote 5y ago
  Maybe this will be what leads to the down fall of Reddit and Discord. Hopefully their replacements will learn their lessons as they once learnt the lessons from those they replaced. Ultimately it's greed.
  - web2sucks 5y ago
    Oh yeah, giving decentralized power to the users is soooo bad. Man i wish Facebook paid me for my fucking data.
- erulabs 5y ago
  Ah, this article is for you! Why adding an optional feature in a free app that tons of users want badly is "exploitative grift" I'm not sure I'll ever be able to understand.

snapdeus 5y ago

one of the essential tenets of capitalism is that it isn't a scam if enough hegemonic corporations engage in it

web2sucks 5y ago
Because it’s not a scam. Remember in the 80s and 90s when ecommerce was a scam, boomers said putting your credit card on a computer is daNgErOuS!!!
- Yizahi 5y ago
  Of course it is. While shitcoins at least have some possibility to work in some limited context, NFTs are a clear scam. The easiest way to get it - it is because every single word said about them by authors is a lie today. Literally nothing of the advertised features exist in reality today.